Definition of Pycnidia. Meaning of Pycnidia. Synonyms of Pycnidia

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Definition of Pycnidia

Pycnidia
Pycnidium Pyc*nid"i*um, n.; pl. Pycnidia. [NL., fr. Gr. ? crowded.] (Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

Meaning of Pycnidia from wikipedia

- A pycnidium (plural pycnidia) is an a****ual fruiting body produced by mitosporic fungi, for instance in the order Sphaeropsidales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes)...
- Septoria are ascomycete pycnidia-producing fungi that cause numerous leaf spot diseases on field crops, forages and many vegetables including tomatoes...
- with an opening at the apex (pycnidia). Four form-families can be distinguished. Sphaeropsidaceae are fungi with pycnidia dark colored, leathery to carbonous...
- tissue. The fruiting structures are spherical with an opening at the apex (pycnidia) or are disc-shaped (acervuli). The formation of conidia in a fruiting...
- acervuli, pycnidia, sporodochia, synnemata and corenima. Acervuli is one of the two major groups of conidiomata (the other being pycnidia). Conidiomata...
- Infection begins with the germination of a****ual conidia, borne from pycnidia, on susceptible tissue, the mycelia gradually move inwards down the branch...
- described by Friedrich Tobler in 1913, was proposed to be a fungus with waxy pycnidia and hyaline conidia lacking septa. It was, however, a little-known taxon...
- one, also known as the alternate or ****ual host, and the mycelium forms pycnidia, which are miniature, flask-shaped, hollow, submicroscopic bodies embedded...
- to the genus Cladonia in 1787. The lichen has apothecia and bright red pycnidia atop of yellowish to grey-green podetia that are 1–2 cm (0.4–0.8 in) high...
- all living cells are then killed. Septoria, which is an ascomycete and pycnidia producing fungus, has been well known to attack Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae...